Jisuk Kim is a senior foreign attorney at Kim & Chang. Ms. Kim practices primarily in the areas of derivatives, secured financing, securities and banking regulation and ESG.

Ms. Kim advises foreign financial institutions in cross-border derivative and secured financing transactions. She has been actively involved in advising financial institutions and global industry associations on regulatory reform implementation involving the OTC derivatives and secured financing markets. Ms. Kim also advises financial institutions on a broad range of legal, regulatory, operational and compliance matters pertaining to their business operations in Korea which include advising clients on regulatory audits and investigations. Ms. Kim’s practice also includes advising foreign financial institutions in obtaining a financial investment business license in Korea and related regulations for setting up and operating a regulated financial institution in Korea.

Ms. Kim has extensive experience in managing legal, compliance, governance and reputational matters for global financial institutions. Prior to rejoining Kim & Chang in 2017, Ms. Kim spent 16 years at Goldman Sachs from 2000 to 2016 where she was a managing director in the legal department in Korea and in London.

As part of the firm’s ESG practice, Ms. Kim also advises Korean multinational corporations on the policy and regulatory developments shaping the ESG landscape in Europe and the US.

Before joining Goldman Sachs, Ms. Kim was in private practice in Korea at Kim & Chang and previous to that she practiced at Brown & Wood LLP in New York in the areas of capital market transactions, mergers and acquisitions and securities industry regulations.

Ms. Kim received a J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1994 and a B.A. in English Literature from Yonsei University in 1990. She was admitted to the New York Bar in 1994. She speaks Korean, English, Japanese, French and Italian.